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PERFECT LITTLE LIARS

For devotees of Pretty Little Liars, Beacon Heights, where the show’s spin-off Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists unfolds, is an uncanny West Coast answer to PLL’s Pennsylvania-based fishbowl city of Rosewood. Save for familiar faces like PLL’s original dead mean girl Alison and the tenuously stable tech genius Mona, The Perfectionists introduces a new cast of unreliable, morally ambiguous characters who are caught in a different mystery and a web of lies of their own design.

While shot near Portland, Ore., arrives with fabulous eerie newness, five minutes creator I. Marlene King built.

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